To think the chicken keepers are trying to prove something and pretend they're on the good life?

[loudmouth]

i think they are most probably a bunch of muppets?
oh lets keep chicken george, wont that be simply down to earth and we'll use recycled shit as much as we can so that we are giving back to the earth...
an i being unreasonable?

loudmouth - COCK

I drive a big diesel guzzling, allegedly child slaughtering, SUV - and keep chickens. Lol, stick that in your stereotypes

But at least my eggs have clocked up air / travel miles

have not ...(oops)

We keep chickens because we sell the eggs. End of.

We are ChickenFree By Choice.

can't help noticing that loudmouth has only appeared tonight .... just being contraversial and trolling all over the place. Best ignored. I expect she wears a Burberry baseball cap backwards and has an IQ of about 7.

We had two chicks as pets. The DS called his Freddie and DD1 called hers Tallulah. They pooed more than their body weight every day. We took them back to the city farm after a month.

We drive a Skoda!

Avian Flu - firstly it is really not a problem atm, secondly, DEFRA has good guidelines - if a wild bird is found dead with bird flu, then exclusion zones are set up. WIthin these zones, all you would need to do is ensure that wild birds can't get through the mesh of the run, and that it has a solid roof, to prevent access by the birds to the wild bird droppings. This wouldn't be a problem at all for our birds.

we drive one of these

Who are you then loudmouth?

rofl megalegs!

Funny - I kept chickens and also drove a skoda. Would have definitely invested in the car ML showed though. We got rid of them as we couln't pay them enough attention after DD was born (seriously). They got donated to a farm and then gobbled up by a fox. I'm sure there's a lesson in there somewhere.

And loudmouth, if no-one near you keeps chickens then what is your problem?

Loudmouth has coq envy.

I drive a Toyota Yaris. Not sure why you wanted to know what chicken keeps drive?

Anyway - I like my chickens, the eggs taste better and yes I do use the chicken poo in the compost and dig it into the veg plot. Anything else?

They're not any trouble - certainly less trouble than a dog and they have a use, which dogs don't.

My dog has it's uses Stripey, it hoovers up dropped food!

Gentle Otter

I wouldnt go as far as saying chicken keepers a muppets but I do think chickens belong in the country not in residential areas.

Well I live in the country but also in a residential area - are my chickens ok?

yes fine stripey, as long as they dont disturb the neighbours

Well my neighbours on one side have more chickens than me. And the neighbours the other side have a really noisy dog. Maybe dogs shouldn't be allowed in residential areas.

there are no chickens round where i live and i wouldnt get any for fear of upsetting the neighbours, I suppose if they are already there when you move in you can't complain. Though I wouldnt be happy if next door neighbours suddenly started keeping chickens and they kept me awake at night.

Our chickens hardly make any noise at all! Certainly not at night - they cluck loudly when they've laid an egg, but 99% of the time you wouldn't know they're there. Note that you don't need a cockerel, which would be noisy!